This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 Excerpt: ... certain nomes, for (i) ov in line 6 refers to places, not to whole nomes, and (2) that passage implies that where there were no nomarchs there were also no toparchs, cf. vo apai f ro-napai. in line 6 with ra /, o/xapxT xat ra o ra j1 in line 5. As for the alternative supposition that the nomarchs were for a time absent, we are forced to believe not only that all the nomarchs could be away at once, which is very unlikely, but that their absence was a matter of frequent occurrence, since it was necessary to provide for the contingency, and further that, when a toparch was acting for a nomarch under these circumstances. he could be called 'chief of the nome.' But it is hardly credible that the toparch should have thus usurped the title of the nomarch; moreover, if the writer of the papyrus had meant that the toparch was for the moment acting-nomarch, he would have used o-n or some such phrase. On the other hand, all these difficulties are avoided by supposing that vo ov is here and in 43 3 equivalent to vow, a meaning which not only suits the context in both cases, but is perfectly consistent with the duties of nomarchs, so far as they can be gathered from the Petrie papyri. The phrase ' chief of the nome' would apply with much greater propriety to the strategus. 17. I have taken a-nopov here as equivalent to o- r, cf. 43 4, and perhaps 42 16. Elsewhere it means the 'crop': e.g. 41 3. It is not clear why the nomarch should receive this money, or who is the subject of o/xifeo-0a), which may mean simply ' receive.' If it is o rpoeOTTjxos, cf. 32 1o note. In 43 3 it is the nomarch who distributes the seed to the cultivators: cf. App. ii (3). T...